- Those reporting such ailments include residents and workers in or near East Palenstine, Ohio, where the train derailed.
- Days after the fiery derailment, authorities had to burn off some of the toxic chemicals onboard, releasing them into the air, for fear instead having a massive explosion.
- The general manager of a manufacturing company adjacent to the derailment site, said five of 10 workers were as of Tuesday too sick to work.
- Whether the illness are the direct result of the toxic chemical did not appear as of this weekend to have been unequivocally verified.